The Establishment and Development of the Ideas of Aesthetic Education in Educational Institutions in the New Era
In the new era,the Communist Party of China(CPC)and the Chinese government elevate the development of aesthetic education in educational institutions to a strategic position related to the building of a powerful country and national rejuvenation.Since the third plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee,China has formulated a series of important policies and established the concept of aesthetic education in educational institutions in the new era.First,the important policy texts have changed their position from art education to aesthetic education,and have made it clear that aesthetic education targets education for beauty appreciation,moral sentiments,and the spirit,highlighting the essential attribute of aesthetic education as imaginative education.Second,aesthetic education in the new era aims to cultivate socialist builders and successors with aesthetic and humanistic accomplishments;it shifts the goal orientation from the comprehensive promotion of well-rounded education to the accomplishment of the fundamental task of molding high morals and cultivating talents based on people orientation,and it changes the connotations of the goal from instrumental value to ontological value.Third,the way to cultivate talents in aesthetic education is"infiltration,"which reveals the unique mechanism for aesthetic education to nourish the heart with emotions and cultivate people through beauty,and constructs"beauty-oriented education"for all disciplines and fields.Fourth,the continuously-developing concept of aesthetic education in educational institutions in the new era presents new topics such as rural aesthetic education,the evaluation of aesthetic education,and technology-empowered aesthetic education,and directs the practice of the aesthetic education reform.
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